Despite recently getting two MEPs elected our support in Yougov polls has recently dropped to 3% (just 1% in Scotland).
One of the main reasons people don’t vote for us is because they believe we are a wasted vote, and it’s online polls such as Yougov that give them this impression!

If EVERY BNP supporter joined Yougov, we could put our support on a par with the Lib Dems and possibly higher!
On top of this we could actually raise money for the Party via Yougov as you actually get paid for participating in surveys.
I have already been sent a £50 cheque by Yougov which I donated to the party.

Imagine if every BNP supporter signed up to Yougov and every few weeks, raised £50 which was donated to the party.
The party could potentially get £100,000’s per year via Yougov!!!

The page mentions the rise in the BNP’s support in the recent YouGov poll. To date it has over 650 members.

Apart from the fact that BNP members are being encouraged to obtain money by false pretenses which will then be donated to the party, the party is also deliberately loading the YouGov member base with numerous BNP members, thus skewing any survey or poll result in, where relevant, the BNP’s favou

Several members on BNP forums claim to have joined YouGov after hearing of the group.

We’ve contacted YouGov for a statement on this issue.

Update: YouGov have released a statement in response to our concerns, saying the impact is likely to be negligible.

They might have tried to do so, but to actually manage to have any significant impact they would have to have had to carefully orchestrate their supporters to sign up to YouGov providing details so as to give them a specific distribution of demographic characteristics ( I think YouGov polls are demographically weighted in terms of who is selected and in terms of the resulting data??) & they would have needed to have been enormously lucky in terms of being selected by YouGov to respond. Basically, it’s incredibly unlikely that they could have altered the poll by more than a tiny fraction of a percentage point.

And as Mike Smithson points out in the link from cjcjc above: “As a starting pointing the BNP might have had a better chance of succeeding if they hadn’t first put it on a website that anybody could find within a few seconds on Google.”

The update on the Political Betting post says it all really, it’s just totally implausible that the BNP could “game” YouGov & all this story really suggests is that they have no idea whatsoever how YouGov’s methodology works.

[…] Did BNP’ers game YouGov to inflate support? One of the admins at the BNP website recently set up a page on its social network to encourage people to game YouGov. It is titled: ‘YOUGOV – Let’s increase BNP’s support in polls, and raise money at the same time!.‘ [Liberal Conspiracy] (tags: BNP YouGov Social_Media Facebook Election2010) […]